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Angela Lovell is a best-selling author and award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, critic, writing instructor, and storyteller. She has written for VICE, MTV, Universal Studios, the New York Post, BUST, High Times, and many other outlets. You can hear her...
Scott Tobias is a freelance film and television writer from Chicago. He currently writes reviews for NPR and Variety, edits Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Musings blog, and contributes frequently to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vulture, and other publications.
Benjamin Mercer is a senior editor at the Criterion Collection. He has written for the A.V. Club, the Village Voice, Reverse Shot, and the Henry James Review, among other publications.
Willy Blackmore is a freelance journalist and essayist who covers food, culture, and the environment.
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her most recent work is The First Bad Man, a novel.
Hillary Weston is staff writer and social media director at the Criterion Collection. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, BOMB, Interview, and BlackBook.
Stephanie Zacharek is the film critic at Time. She was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work at the Village Voice.
Jim Ridley (1965–2016) wrote about movies for the Nashville Scene, an alternative newsweekly in Nashville, as well as Cinema Scope, the Village Voice, and LA Weekly.
Stuart Liebman is an emeritus professor in the Film Studies, Art History, and Theater programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Key Essays, which he edited, was published by Oxford University Press in 2007.
Mark Kermode is a film critic and broadcaster who works for the BBC, the Observer, and Sight & Sound.